Reborn Brazil as a Plutocrat

Chapter 377 Artillery Factory

In fact, this has something to do with everyone's perspective. In Ji Wanchang's eyes, Fang Lang's advice to him was helping the Chinese community in Malaya, and everyone should remember his contribution.

It is best to vigorously publicize and build up Fang Lang's image. In the future, Fang Lang will help them make more plans.

In the eyes of Fang Lang, Fang Xinshui and others, we are all Chinese. If you want to fight for a new independent country for the Chinese in Malaya, we will succeed with both hands.

It is only natural for me to make suggestions for you.

But now your enemy is the British. Although the enemy has declined, its influence is still there. If you let the other party know that your Brazilian general is actually helping the anti-British forces to make plans, it might put pressure on the Brazilian government.

Let Fang Lang's position in Brazil be affected.

Therefore, neither Fang Lang nor Fang Xinshui wanted the British to discover their existence.

Although Ji Wanchang didn't understand why Fang Xinshui didn't want people to know Mr. Fang's existence, but now that he had something to ask for, he could only hold his nose and let the other party threaten him.

"Hall Master Fang, please rest assured! Since you think we should keep Mr. Fang's existence secret, I will strictly enforce it.

However, our business still needs Mr. Fang's guidance. If we encounter problems that cannot be solved, I hope you can help me contact Mr. Fang to answer our questions.

Ji will be rewarded generously when the time comes."

Naturally, Fang Xinshui would not refuse, and without much thought, he nodded and agreed to the other party's request.

At the same time, Fang Lang had already returned to the Overseas Chinese Village. He went out to practice martial arts early this morning and went to Hongyi Hall to talk about things in the afternoon. Fang Lang didn't have time to spend time with his girlfriend.

So, after finishing the serious conversation, I hurried back to the village to be with my girlfriend.

"Oh my God! Honey, is our hospital that big?"

Before it got dark, Fang Lang took Lilith and Vivian to the hospital construction site to visit the hospital's construction status.

After seeing the hospital's plan, Lilith couldn't believe her eyes. She thought Fang Lang wanted to build just a small hospital.

But who would have known that Fang Lang simply referred to those famous large tertiary A hospitals in later generations for construction.

Therefore, both the building area and the scale of the hospital were far beyond Lilith's expectations.

Hearing Lilith's sigh, Fang Lang smiled and said:

"Haha. My dear, what's going on here? What I want to build is not an ordinary small hospital, but a large research general hospital.

Treating patients is only its basic function. I hope to turn it into a medical institution integrating teaching and research.

In the future, many medical laboratories will be established here for doctors, experts, and professors from all over the world to conduct medical experiments.

And these will all be handed over to you to manage.”

When Lilith heard this, she felt a huge pressure and stuttered:

"Ah! Keke, I'm still just a student! I'm still learning even the most basic medical knowledge!"

When Fang Lang heard this, he smiled and said:

"Don't worry! I'm not asking you to start managing now. Aren't you still learning?

Besides, managing a hospital does not require you to have a high medical level.

In addition to studying, you can ask Olivia Berg for some management knowledge. He is a top student who graduated from a related major. We must learn to fully extract his residual value."

When Lilith heard this, she rolled her eyes at Fang Lang angrily and said:

"What are you talking about!"

Vivian on the side heard this and smiled as if she had been caught by me:

"Okay! Honey! I'm going to tell Olivia that you want to drain her."

When Fang Lang heard these words, he felt as if something was wrong. For a moment, he didn't know how to answer the call.

Lilith, on the other hand, slapped her sister directly to signal her not to talk nonsense.

He turned to Fang Lang and said:

"Dear, do you think Olivia will be bored in Rio de Janeiro alone? Should we arrange for someone to pick her up?"

Fang Lang glanced at Lilith helplessly and thought to himself that bringing two girlfriends home this time had already made his father very dissatisfied.

If I brought Olivia Berg over again and my family asked, no one would believe me if I said she was an assistant at Universal.

Maybe he thought it was his third girlfriend. Although he didn't dislike Olivia being the third girlfriend, now Olivia's uncle was the vice president of his media company.

It wouldn't be good if he found out, so he said nonchalantly:

"She came to see his uncle, how could she be bored?"

Lilith glanced at Fang Lang with a half-smile and said:

"Do you think she really came to see his uncle?"

When Fang Lang heard this, he looked at Lilith with a puzzled expression and asked:

"What if?"

The girl Vivian was already at the side, and she spoke from the side without any scruples:

“My dear, you are so hypocritical, I don’t believe you have no thoughts about Sister Olivia!

Otherwise, you would let such a beautiful sister become your personal secretary.

Hum! Hypocrisy!”

Fang Lang's face was filled with embarrassment when he said this. This time, Lilith looked at Fang Lang with a smile on her face, wanting to see how he was going to answer.

As soon as Fang Lang looked at Lilith for help, he saw Lilith's expression of looking forward to a good show.

He could only shrug helplessly and said:

"Okay! I admit Olivia is beautiful, but I promise I only love you!

Besides, does this have anything to do with whether she came over to see her uncle?"

Vivian hugged Fang Lang's right arm nonchalantly and said with a joking face:

"Dear, the elders say that men have roses on their lips, but that's not true at all!

You say you love us, and I believe it! But when you say you only love us, I don’t believe it so much!

hey-hey"

Lilith also said:

"Okay! My dear, you are really not honest at all. Regardless of whether Olivia comes to see her uncle or not, now that you are in Brazil, do you have to fulfill your loyalty as a landlord?"

After hearing this, Fang Lang thought seriously for a while, and then said to Lilith seriously:

"Well! What Lilith said makes sense. Hospitality is our Chinese tradition.

A friend has traveled thousands of miles to come to my hometown, and it is indeed necessary for me to entertain her warmly.

Then I’ll have someone buy him a ticket to come to Sao Paulo tomorrow morning.”

Lilith rolled her eyes at Fang Lang angrily. Vivian, who was holding Fang Lang's arm, pinched Fang Lang's arm with her hand and said angrily:

"Humph! What a hypocritical man!"

Fang Lang stared ahead as if unaware, and continued to discuss the hospital's future construction plan and development blueprint with Lilith.

Vivian and Lilith did not continue to argue. Instead, they looked at their man who was scolding Fang Qiu with admiration.

Naturally, it is impossible for Fang Lang to take a complete vacation this time.

Fang Lang, who rarely had time to return to Sao Paulo, arrived at the artillery factory early the next morning, accompanied by Qi Qingshan and other guards.

The location of the factory is very remote, nearly three hours' drive from the city.

When Fang Lang and others arrived at the factory, the chief engineer of the artillery factory, Gilal Bull, was already waiting at the entrance of the artillery factory.

The first time they saw Fang Lang arriving, they greeted him without hesitation. The two of them held hands and complained:

"Boss, you finally came to see us.

I thought you were very dissatisfied with my work! That’s why you don’t want to see our artillery factory!”

Hearing this, Fang Lang shook hands with the other party and patted the other party's arm with his left hand and said:

"How is it possible? Although I don't have time to visit you in the factory, I have heard a lot about you.

No, I just heard that your 155mm howitzer has been finalized, so I took advantage of my vacation to come over and take a look.

I heard that our model is nearly 100 kilograms lighter than its prototype, the American M1A1?"

When talking about his products, Gilard Bourna said with pride:

"Yes, boss!

We replaced some non-essential parts of the artillery with steel materials and chose lighter aluminum alloys.

Although the weight of the gun has been reduced, its performance has not been affected in any way.

The military representatives stationed at the site are very satisfied with the artillery produced by us and have submitted a report to the Ministry of National Defense.

Just wait until the Ministry of National Defense acceptance is completed, and then we can slowly start supplying goods to the military."

Fang Lang nodded after hearing this, and the two walked into the artillery production workshop accompanied by a large group of people.

Girard Bull walked in front and kept introducing to Fang Lang the production technology and processing equipment of the artillery.

Although some of the equipment looks second-hand, it obviously has no impact on its use.

Among them, there are also many brand-new processing equipment.

In his previous life, Fang Lang had only heard about electroslag remelting, but this time he saw the real thing in the factory.

According to Girard Bull, this is the most advanced processing equipment that he obtained from the United States through his own connections.

After visiting the entire manufacturing process of the factory, Fang Lang finally understood why the artillery produced by the artillery factory could reach the performance level of the original version.

It turned out that in addition to the equipment Fang Lang shipped from Japan, the factory also purchased a lot of more advanced equipment from the United States.

Most of the workers in the factory are American workers. No wonder the products can reach the current performance level. This is no different from being produced in the United States!

This is not what Fang Lang wants, so after visiting the artillery's shooting limit experiment.

Returning to Girard Bull's office, Fang Lang said directly:

"Girard, I am very satisfied that you were able to give the artillery factory real artillery production capabilities so quickly and make improvements and innovations.

But I noticed that many positions in the factory are filled with skilled workers hired from the United States, which will greatly increase our management costs.

I believe the cost of the artillery we produce now must be higher than that produced in the United States, right?"

Girard Bull, who originally thought he would continue to be praised, did not expect that the first question his boss asked him in the office was the cost issue that he was least willing to mention.

However, this is indeed an unavoidable fact. I can only bite the bullet and say to Fang Lang:

"Yes, our production costs are 15% higher than those of American factories.

Among them, labor costs account for 5%, and the other 10% is because we use new materials to reduce weight.

In addition, we are currently only conducting trial production in small batches for testing and acceptance, so the cost is on the high side.”

When Fang Lang heard this, he thought, "Sure enough!"

He knew that this required a process and could not be achieved in one step, so he smiled and said:

"It doesn't matter. I can understand that the first thing we have to solve now is whether there are any problems. With innovation, the higher cost is acceptable.

However, you have to understand that the target customers of our factory are not just the Brazilian army. You must know that the Brazilian army alone cannot support an artillery factory as large as ours.

If we want to survive, our products must go global and compete with products from European and American countries. If the cost is higher than theirs, it will not be good for our sales.

American skilled workers are very useful, but the cost is too high.

Therefore, I hope you can find a way to train us more cheap local skilled workers.

To reduce our production costs. Do you understand what I mean?"

(End of chapter)